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Sept. 6, 1927. 1,641,209 w. T. WALLACE TOY Filed May 5, 192

Mus/Woe:- WILL/AM T/ADDEU-S Mumcc 35 nates the floor of the house.

Patented Sept. 6, 1927.

innrsn STATES .Parsnr erran TOY.

Application filed may 3, 1926. Serial 1%. 106,433.

The object of my device is to make a toy, particularly a childs house which is particularly adapted for ready ingress and egress manually. A further object is to devise a toy house in which the greater portion of the roof and front are hingedly secured together in such a manner that they may be positioned in place to complete the side and roof of the house and so that they may be rotated away from the house in order to permit a complete view of the inside oflthe house from the opened side and root. A further object is to house that may be easily and cheaply made of few and simple parts that lend them selves readily to multiple production and maybe cheaply assembled. A further object is to make the partitions between the rooms of the house of such size that the view from the outside or the house may be had on the entire interior of the house at one time;

lVith these and other objects in view, my

. invention has relation to" certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be'hereinafter more fully-described, pointed out in'the claims,

trated in the drawing in which,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my and Fig.

device 2 is a transve'se sectional elevation on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. an afragmental sectional plan on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Numeral 4 desigfront wall, and numeral 6 the stationary side, and numeral 18 the movable side. Numeral 8 designates a roof having a break in its contour at 9. Numeral 1O designates the chimney, numeral 12 the door, numerals 13 the windows,numeral 1 1 the ceiling of the lower room,andthe floor of the upper floor. Numeral 15 designates a. flight of stairs, and numeral 16 the partition Walls which extend from the floor upwardly only a short distance, preferablyan inch or two, in order to designate the confining limits 01"" the rooms. At the break in the contour of devise a toy and illus Numeral 5 the the roof is hingedly secured the movable roof portion 17 and at the edge ofthe movable roof portion '1? is hingedly secured the movable side wall 18. In Fig. 2 the movable root portion 17 and the movable side wall 18 are shown by dashed lines in their rotated or elevated positions. The movable root portion 1'? and the movable side wall 18 are gravitationally, normally held in the position shown by solid lines in Fig. 2, in which position the house is complete in appearanceand in which position it is not possible to see, into the house except partially and imperfectly through the windows and 7 door.

The movable root portion 17, together with the movableside wall 18, may be rotated they are supported against some other portion of the house, for example, the chimney. In this position the entire interior of: all

the fioorsfof the house are made entirely vis ble from the exterior of the house. In

rotating the movable roof portion 17 and the movable side wall 18, they are preferably grasped by the hands of the child at the lower portion of the movable roof portion 17, permitting the movable side wall 18 to hang vertically.

That I claim and mean to secure by Letters Patent is, V

1. In a device of the character described. a house comprising a stationary roof and a movable roof portion, hinges rotatively connecting said stationary roof and said movable roof portion, a movable side wall connected by hinges to the outer edge of the movable roof portion. 7

'2. In a device of the character described, ahouse comprising a stationary root and a movable root portion, hing-es rotatively connecting said stationary roof and said movable roof portion, a movable side wall connected by hinges to the outer edge of the movable root portion, and partitions extending "from the floor partially to the ceiling. a

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature. WILLIAM THADDEUS WALLACE.

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